Risk Assessment helps you identify the hazards included in running your event and what you can do to reduce the likelihood of a risk!​

Under UK law, the Students’ Guild has a moral and legal duty to ensure the safety of anyone who could come to harm because of the activity we undertake as an organisation. ​

This means that it is a legal requirement that your group has an approved risk assessment for every activity you run and organise as a society!

This is outlined in the following legislation:​

• The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974​
• The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999​

This means that every academic year, all societies need to update, sign and resubmit their Annual Risk Assessment, which assesses all the activities they plan to do within that year.  

Some specific activities you might want to organise require an individual event risk assessment. These include...

• Overnight trips
• Large-scale performances 
• Large-scale events (over 150 attendees) 
• External speaker events

What are your responsibilities as a committee in relation to risk assessment?

• To submit the correct risk assessment type within the deadline​
• To assess the risks of potential hazards ​
• To identify controls to stop anyone getting hurt by those hazards ​
• To ensure those controls are followed when the event is run 

You can find risk assessment guidance, templates and examples in this section.